Marc Sandalow: GOP’s San Francisco Horror Show

Today’s offering comes from House Republican Whip Roy Blunt of Ohio who issued a Halloween orange headline atop a release distributed to reporters and Republican voters: Nancy Pelosi’s Liberal Shop of Horrors: All Tricks, No Treats for America.

“If Nancy Pelosi is elected Speaker, the American people not only have to fear a liberal San Francisco agenda, but the real concern might be what bills she refuses to allow the House to consider in the first place,” Blunt says.

“Can the American people trust liberal San Francisco values when it comes to our nation’s priorities on immigration reform, tax relief, job creation and homeland security?”

Whether “San Francisco” is code for liberal, gay, yellow, wishy-washy, spineless, weak, lesbian, soft, or cowardly is left to the imagination. It is not meant as a compliment.

It is clear, however, that San Francisco values are not the values of Republican leaders.

“The president ‘seems to think the best way to revive the economy is to give more tax breaks to those who don’t need them and dole out lucrative incentives that do not stimulate economic growth.'” (USA Today, 1/30/02)

No surprise that Pelosi typically wins her district with more than 80 percent of the vote, while President Bush received roughly 15 percent of the city’s votes in the past two elections.